Alex Lancaster
Partner at IGDORE
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex Lancaster is a partner at Amber Biology with 25 years of experience at the intersection of biology and software, delivering computational R&D, bioinformatics, and product-focused modeling for life sciences. He combines deep domain expertise in evolutionary and systems biology with hands-on skills in agent-based modeling, machine learning, high-performance computing and software engineering across Python, Java, and C. As Principal Scientist at Biosystems Analytics and an affiliated researcher with IGDORE and Ronin Institute, he bridges academic rigor—publications and patents—with pragmatic startup and industry product development. Comfortable switching between researcher and developer roles, he focuses on turning complex biological questions into reproducible, production-ready tools and simulations. A proponent of open science and complex-systems thinking, he brings a creative curiosity (once moonlighting as a midnight–dawn radio host) to collaborative, multidisciplinary problems.
25 years of coding experience
Github Skills (91)
python10
circleci10
build-automation10
azure-pipelines10
computational-biology10
next-generation-sequencing10
appveyor10
pypi10
open-source10
travis-ci10
python-wheel10
bioinformatics10
journal9
openstreetmap9
systems-biology9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
amberbiology/py4lifesci
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Code repository for the book "Python for the Life Sciences" by Lancaster & Webster
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 8 months
pythonlife-sciencesbioinformaticssystems-biologycomputational-biology
amberbiology/scribl
Dec 2023 - Jun 2026
Semantic Capture of Relationships In Biological Literature (scribl)
Contributions:10 releases, 69 reviews, 87 PRs in 2 years 6 months
computational-biologyliterature-miningnetwork-biologysystems-biology
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